04/30/1967
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"Today the per capita income of this region is 69 percent of the national average, compared to 45 percent at the time of TVA's creation."
"What has happened is the chronicle of a people beginning to realize that what is written in the books of their laws should also be written in the daily chapters of their lives."
"At any given moment over the past two centuries, observers of American life were convinced that the United States was about to come apart at the seams."
"The true purchasing power of today's factory worker is just 300 percent of its 1932 level."